Alec Cao

410 total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 227 citations indexed

About

Alec Cao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alec Cao has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 227 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 2 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 1 paper in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Alec Cao's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (9 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (3 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (3 papers). Alec Cao is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (9 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (3 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (3 papers). Alec Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Alec Cao's co-authors include Adam M. Kaufman, William J. Eckner, Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Aaron W. Young, Jun Ye, William R. Milner, John M. Robinson, David Weld, Zoran Hadzibabic and Sven Jandura and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alec Cao

10 papers receiving 216 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Realizing spin squeezing with Rydberg interactions in an optical clock

2023 88 citations William J. Eckner, Nelson Darkwah Oppong et al. Nature profile →
Multi-qubit gates and Schrödinger cat states in an optical clock

2024 48 citations Alec Cao, William J. Eckner et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alec Cao United States	7	198	71	46	14	9	11	227
Maximilian Prüfer Germany	7	264 1.3×	130 1.8×	53 1.2×	26 1.9×	6 0.7×	12	280
S. Lepoutre France	12	341 1.7×	82 1.2×	49 1.1×	25 1.8×	4 0.4×	22	361
Mohammadamin Tajik Austria	8	230 1.2×	66 0.9×	42 0.9×	23 1.6×	4 0.4×	12	243
Frederik Møller Austria	10	251 1.3×	57 0.8×	60 1.3×	28 2.0×	4 0.4×	18	278
Santiago F. Caballero-Benítez Mexico	12	341 1.7×	130 1.8×	62 1.3×	33 2.4×	5 0.6×	27	352
J. L. Helm United Kingdom	9	277 1.4×	52 0.7×	55 1.2×	18 1.3×	7 0.8×	11	286
Adam L. Shaw United States	9	283 1.4×	199 2.8×	35 0.8×	8 0.6×	20 2.2×	16	345
Debraj Rakshit India	10	347 1.8×	141 2.0×	67 1.5×	54 3.9×	11 1.2×	31	368
P. J. Everitt Australia	6	312 1.6×	52 0.7×	72 1.6×	10 0.7×	3 0.3×	7	326
A. L. Marchant United Kingdom	8	252 1.3×	40 0.6×	50 1.1×	16 1.1×	3 0.3×	12	271

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alec Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alec Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alec Cao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alec Cao. Alec Cao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Cao, Alec, et al.. (2026). Continuously trapped matter-wave interferometry in magic Floquet-Bloch band structures. Nature Communications. 17(1).

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Cao, Alec, et al.. (2025). Autoionization-Enhanced Rydberg Dressing by Fast Contaminant Removal. Physical Review Letters. 134(13). 133201–133201. 1 indexed citations

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Kondakci, H. Esat, et al.. (2024). Anomalous localization in a kicked quasicrystal. Nature Physics. 20(3). 409–414. 12 indexed citations

4.

Cao, Alec, et al.. (2024). Observation of Subdiffusive Dynamic Scaling in a Driven and Disordered Bose Gas. Physical Review Letters. 132(11). 113401–113401. 6 indexed citations

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Cao, Alec, William J. Eckner, Aaron W. Young, et al.. (2024). Multi-qubit gates and Schrödinger cat states in an optical clock. Nature. 634(8033). 315–320. 48 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cao, Alec, et al.. (2023). Pinpointing Feshbach resonances and testing Efimov universalities in K39. Physical Review Research. 5(1). 16 indexed citations

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Eckner, William J., Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Alec Cao, et al.. (2023). Realizing spin squeezing with Rydberg interactions in an optical clock. Nature. 621(7980). 734–739. 88 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hilker, Timon, et al.. (2023). Universal equation of state for wave turbulence in a quantum gas. Nature. 620(7974). 521–524. 14 indexed citations

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Cao, Alec, et al.. (2022). Observation of the Quantum Boomerang Effect. Physical Review X. 12(1). 15 indexed citations

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Cao, Alec, et al.. (2022). Interaction-driven breakdown of dynamical localization in a kicked quantum gas. Nature Physics. 18(11). 1302–1306. 24 indexed citations

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Cao, Alec, et al.. (2020). Probing Nonexponential Decay in Floquet–Bloch Bands. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 75(5). 443–448. 3 indexed citations

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